Wink and A Kiss Books in Order

Wink and A Kiss is less a long-running Karen Hawkins series than a snapshot of where one important story first appeared. In this database, it centers on One Lucky Lord, an earlier version of the romance Hawkins later reworked as Much Ado About Marriage.

That makes this page interesting in a slightly different way.

At the heart of the story is Thomas Wentworth, an English earl on a mission in Scotland, and Fia MacLean, the sharp-tongued heroine who knocks his plans completely off course. He arrives expecting a clean, strategic assignment. Instead he gets a castle, a clash with the MacLeans, a compromise, and a marriage he never intended to make. It is the kind of setup Hawkins clearly loved enough to revisit later.

The tone is broader and more playful than some of her later work, but the bones are familiar. You have a forceful heroine, a hero whose confidence is about to be tested, and a story that keeps tipping from danger into flirtation and back again. Scotland matters here, too. The setting is not just decorative. Clan loyalties, political tension, and the sense of being on contested ground all help drive the romance.

Because there is only one book listed under this heading, the best way to think about Wink and A Kiss is as an early branch in Hawkins's career rather than a full shelf of related novels. Readers coming here are usually curious about origins, alternate versions, or the path from an early standalone toward the richer family networks that would later define the MacLean and Hurst books.

So this page works best as context. If you like seeing where an author's favorite ideas started, or how one romance later grew into part of a bigger fictional world, Wink and A Kiss is worth the stop.